Ink blotter



Dec. 12, 1944. BERG 2,364,773

INK BLOTTER Filed Jan. 17, 1944 INVEN TOR. Mar zz' n B erg PATENT AGE/VT Patented Dec. 12 1944 INK BLOTTER Martin Berg, Brooklyn, 'N. Y. Application January 17, 1944, Serial No. 518,542

1 Claim.

This invention relates to an ink blotter particularly rocking blotting paper holder containing a basic holder which carries one or more sheets of blotting paper.

All kinds of ink blotters have been used which consisted of several parts. The holder has been made of stiff material as rubber, metal, wood, and was composed mostly of several parts and held together by specially arranged means. The blotting paper was attached on one side of the approximately elliptically shaped holder or wound around the holder. A simplified ink blotter has also been used which consists of a paper or carton holder around which the blotting paper is wound and on its outside another stiff cover of metal, wood, or similar material was arranged, in order to achieve the necessary elliptic shape of the blotter. Thus two different parts are again necessary to keep the layers of blotting paper in elliptic shape.

It is, therefore, the principal object of the pres ent invention to provide an ink blotter which con tains One holder preferably of paper or cardboard or other foldable material carrying one or more layers of blotting paper and merely by folding retains its elliptic shape.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an ink blotter the holder of which is cut of one single piece of carton or similar foldable material and one part of which has attached one or more layers of blotting paper.

A further object of the present invention is to provide an ink blotter which can be folded and be carried in a pocket when in its folded fiat position.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a collapsible blotter which when set up to the approximately elliptic rocking position avoids by all means an undesired. collapse into its flat position.

Other objects of this invention will be apparent from the following description of the ink blotter which is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing, of which:

Figure 1 is a cut of the holder of the ink blotter;

Figure 2 shows the ink blotter in still flat position;

Figure 3 shows a perspective View of the ink blotter ini folded position;

Figure 4 is a side view of the ink blotter; and

Figure 5 is a section along the line 55 of Figure 4.

The rocking [blotting paper holder is cut out of one piece of paper or cardboard as shown in partly folded Figure 1. The cut consists of a square part "I, a middle part 2 with curved side parts l3 and .a small end part 4. The square part I and the end part 4 are folded to the right and left, re spectively, and the end part 4 is either pasted or clipped to the square part I. Since the square part I has the same length as middle part 2, the square part I covers part 2 when bent over along line 5 whereas end part 4 has been bent over along line 6. One or a plurality of layers of blotting p per 1 (Figures 4 and 5) are attached, preferably by pasting, to the front of square part I. In this condition the ink holder is still of entirely flat shape and can be carried in a pocket or can be transported in great quantities in a container of comparatively small volumeQsince the thickness of the ink-holder consists in this position merely of the thickness of the cardboard of th holder and the thickness of the layers of lblotting paper In order to put the ink-holder into working condition and to transform it in approximately elliptic shape the side' parts 3 of the middle part 2 are bent over for more than (Fig. 5) along preferably premarked lines 8 thus distancing the part I from part 2. In this position the ink-holder will rock and will stay in that working position as long as side parts 3 stay bent over. In this'position the side parts 3 serve also as a handle, when the ink holder is lifted by hand.

The parts I and 2 are at their widest distance when the extensions 3 are bent inside to exactly 90. Bending the extensions 3 a little further than 90 narrows the parts I and 2 again and in order to return to the flat collapsed position it is necessary to move through the widened position of the parts I and 2. Curved, concave bending lines 8 are provided to make sure that The ink holder according to the invention is marketed in fiat position shown in Figure 2,in

which parts I and 2 have been pasted or clipped together. By taking the ink-holder between two fingers of one hand along lines 5 and 6 thus distancing parts I and 2 and turning down the two parts 3 with two fingers of the other hand a little more than 90 the said two parts 3 will turn into the space between parts I and 2 and, since the latter have the tendency to return to their flat position, will be kept in that turned to their fiat position. n Thus the ink-holder is ready to stocked in a low drawer or to be transported in a pocket.

While there is above described but one embodiment of the invention with a variation only 011 connecting upper and-lower apart of the iIIk'-' holder, it is possible to produce still other em What is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letter Patent, is:

In an ink blotter, a holder consisting of an upper and lower part of bendabl material, a third part integrally connected with one of the said parts, said third part being adapted to be bent over to the said part being integrally connected with and fastened to the other of the said parts, side extensions of said upper or lower part adapted to: be bent over betweern said upper and lower part along a curved line. assuring the said bending for more than 90 and sustained in that I 'p'osition by the said upper and lower part after narrowing the latter in the bent-over position bodiments without departure from theinventive v concept above disclosed, and it'fs, therefore; desired that only such limitations shall be imposed on th appended claim as are stated therein.

of the said extensions, and at least one of the saidupper and lower parts carrying one or a plurality Of layers of blotting paper.

MARTIN BERG. 

